Daniel Barenboim Quotes

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

Tom Brokaw was never young.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

Aging is a synonym for living.

I think I was born aged about 86.

Some feel old at 45.

I used to think 63 was old.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

I quite like being old.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.